News archive from 10 April 2016

One in every 200 babies is stillborn in the UK and there is around a 25% variation in stillbirth rates across England, according to NHS figures.
New research, published in UK medical journal The Lancet, has found maternal and child deaths around the...

Anthony Joshua won the IBF world heavyweight title by beating American Charles Martin with a spectacular second-round knockout at the O2 Arena.
The 26-year Briton started fast with a number of heavy blows in the opening round and Martin was knocked to...

More than a million people in Mexico are descended from African slaves and identify as "black", "dark" or "Afro-Mexican" even if they don't look black. But beyond the southern state of Oaxaca they are little-known and the...

The prime minister took the unprecedented decision to release his personal tax records on Saturday, as growing anger over revelations in the Panama Papers threatened to derail his premiership.
Related: David Cameron: blame me for mishandling Panama...

Newcastle defender Jamaal Lascelles has blasted his team-mates after defeat at Southampton pushed them a step nearer to the Championship.
Lascelles came on as a substitute at half-time at St Mary's in the latest defeat, the ninth successive loss...

David Cameron paid almost £76,000 in tax on an income of more than £200,000 in 2014-15, figures released by the prime minister have shown.
He earned £46,899 from his 50% share of rent on the London family home in Notting Hill, the first such papers...

Birmingham City responded to their disappointing run of results with a good performance and morale-boosting victory at Reading.
Goals from Clayton Donaldson and Ryan Shotton gave Gary Rowett's men as comfortable a 2-0 victory as the Championship can...

Three people have been taken to hospital following a motorway crash involving around ten vehicles.
The accident took place earlier this evening on the M6 Northbound between J12 A5 (Gailey) and J13 A449 (Stafford South).
Lanes one and two of the...

Leaders Juventus moved closer to a record fifth straight Serie A title after recovering to beat AC Milan 2-1 on Saturday,
Juve extended their lead at the top to nine points with six games left as goals from Mario Mandzukic and Paul Pogba gave...

Whether that unwavering self-belief stretched to him one day winning the Premier League title with Leicester City is less clear.
On the eve of the Foxes' trip to Sunderland this afternoon, the City stopper refused to discuss or contemplate that...

The Dutchman would love to beat neighbours City to a top-four finish but said: “Playing in the Champions League is very important for players but I think Manchester United are big enough to attract top players.
“Qualifying would help me when I am...

Birthday tweets seldom assume overtones of attack, but on his special day the former Mexican president Vicente Fox mixed mushy messages for his wife, Martha Sahagún, with scorn for Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.
Related: Let's raise our voices...

Last week, groups of Catholic women walked out of church services in Poland in protest at a letter read out by priests calling for a tightening in the country’s abortion laws. As we report from Warsaw today, it is a sign of the growing influence of...

The leafier corners of north London are celebrating a triumph of people power after an upmarket food chain withdrew from taking over a much-loved family cafe on Hampstead Heath.
Last Sunday the Observer reported that the Italian-owned Parliament Hill...

Vaccine campaigns to protect wild chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans could be the only hope of preventing the planet’s remaining great apes from suffering catastrophic population crashes, scientists have warned.
They say that recent surveys of...